Burial

Burial: Tunes 2011-2019 review

The producer’s collected post-Untrue EPs reveal him as one of the most evocative voices in British music

Ben Beaumont-Thomas

06, Dec, 2019 @9:30 AM

The 100 best albums of the 21st century

We polled 45 music writers to rank the definitive LPs of the 21st century so far. Read our countdown of passionate pop, electrifying rock and anthemic rap – and see if you agree

Ben Beaumont-Thomas (1-50); Laura Snapes and April Curtin (51-100)

13, Sep, 2019 @8:00 AM

R&B star HER: ‘I wanted to be anonymous’

Her songs are streamed in the millions and her music is beloved by Janet Jackson. But who is HER, the songwriter who hides her identity with a pair of sunglasses?

Leonie Cooper

05, Nov, 2018 @12:00 PM

These are the songs that never end: 10 of music's most rewarding long cuts

Father John Misty just debuted Leaving LA, a 13-minute, chorus-free track off his upcoming album. Here are the most brilliant and bewitching songs to have gotten the long-form treatment

Sam Richards

08, Feb, 2017 @3:43 PM

Burial – 10 of the best

The Banksy of future garage, whose two-step compositions soundtracked London’s darker sides, continues to shape-shift across collaborations and genres

Kyle MacNeill

19, Oct, 2016 @3:24 PM

Unsound festival 2015 – surprises from a salt mine with the Midas touch

King Midas Sound and Fennesz sparkled 125m below the ground but Current 93 disappointed at Kraków’s risk-taking festival that kept half its artists a secret until they went on stage

Ben Beaumont-Thomas

20, Oct, 2015 @1:17 PM

Noah (No 52)

Japanese purveyor of heart-stopping, hauntingly dreamy electronic R&B

Paul Lester

01, May, 2015 @2:30 PM

The Spaceape obituary

Influential dubstep MC who expanded the boundaries of an emerging genre

Melissa Bradshaw

24, Oct, 2014 @10:15 AM

Jerry Dammers pays tribute to late Hyperdub MC the Spaceape

Founder of the Specials says the late Hyperdub artist, who has died of cancer, ‘produced the very best in popular music from this country in the last 20 years’

Guardian music

03, Oct, 2014 @4:39 PM

James Blake debuts new track 40455

Alongside a new cut of late-night jazz, the Mercury Prize winner carries out a hoax interview with Burial and debuts a Beyonce remix during Radio 1 show

Guardian music

17, Jan, 2014 @12:07 PM